CLA President Dr Kristine Klugman has welcomed the new ability to take action in court in the ACT to ensure someone’s human rights are protected. “This is a help to the little people in society, who benefit most from human rights laws,” she said.
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Germany’s Constitutional Court has created a new right to privacy of computers, and privacy of some personal data on them. As well, the court has cemented into German law the notion of rights to ‘personality’ as expressed by personal documents held on co…
CLA’s media spokesperson Max Jeganathan commented recently on the wholesale expansion of police access to CCTV footage in NSW.Phote: NSW Police imageRead the media article here.
The fragility of democracy, particularly when war is in the air, was the theme of CLA Director James Staples’ speech to officially launch, in the national capital, the Liberating of Lady Chatterley and Other True Stories: A History of the NSW Council for…
The speed and ease of media releases girdling the globe showed up when CLA’s comments on the citizenship test featured in The (UK) Guardian.
Cricket test comment runs in UK
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The speed and ease of media releases girdling the globe showed…
President of CLA, Dr Kristine Klugman, has welcomed the proposed new right to take Supreme Court action to enforce the ACT’s human rights legislation. She congratulated Attorney-General Simon Corbell and Chief Minister Jon Stanhope for the initiative, an…
CLA questions whether Australia’s citizenship test should be continued at all. If kept, it certainly must be reworked to be fair and equitable to refugee and humanitarian migrants, CLA’s media release says. Immigration Minister Chris Evans should act imm…
All Australians are not equal. The 500,000-plus citizens of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are discrimated against under the Australian Constitution and by laws of the Australian Parliament, contrary to international human ri…
A cascade of more than 50 Acts tackling ‘anti-terrorism’ – short-term reactions to then-perceived threats – have engulfed Australian society since 2001. Over the next decade or so, there’s a need to re-balance the legislation to better reflect the co…
Susan Carew is a CLA member dedicated to values education and social empowerment. She has clowned with Patch Adams in Russia, in hospitals and on the streets, and in 2008 undertakes further peace and conflict studies in Thailand. Here, she tells how trut…